Current Tools and Techniques in Library Science/Bhagwan Das. New Delhi, Cyber Tech, 2007, viii, 260 p., ISBN 81-7884-243-2.

    Contents: Preface. 1. Telecataloging. 2. Networking and usage in libraries. 3. Indexing and cataloguing. 4. Local developments in serials cataloging. 5. Changes through IT in public libraries. 6. Publishers and digital libraries. 7. The digital Millennium Copyright Act. 8. CONTU guidelines on photocopying under interlibrary loan arrangements. 9. Copyright. 10. Hawaii administrative rules. 11. Library science: guidelines and functions. Appendix. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

    "With the changing scenario of library and information science, the role and functions of librarians have undergone sea change. A stream of data sent to earth from a satellite is not a library. Current tools and techniques contain diverse collections of information for use by many different users. The unifying theme is that information is organized on computers and available over a network, with procedures to select the material in the collections, to organize it, to make it available to users, and to archive it. In some ways current techniques are very different from traditional libraries, yet in others they are remarkably similar. People do not change because new technology is invented. They still create information that has to be organized, stored, and distributed.

    Thus, keeping the aforesaid development in view, this book is devised. The complete picture of future libraries is portrayed, drawing vital information from various authoritative sources."

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